The Heatpulse 610 RTP (Rapid Thermal Processsor) is
used to heat a silicon wafer to a sufficiently high
temperature so that the silicon lattice is reformed. Rapid
heating and cooling of the wafer also minimizes the effects
of particle diffusion. By varying time and temperature settings
on the RTA, dopant diffusion can be controlled in order to move
dopants to a specific depth.

The wafer is sealed inside the quartz chamber where it is heated
by 21 tungsten halogen lamps. Nitrogen air is circulated around
the wafer during heating to prevent it from oxidizing in the
heating cycles.
Wafers are annealed in a process called a recipe. Recipes
entail the duration and intensity of heating to properly anneal
the wafer and move the dopant to specified depths in the wafer.
Each recipe is broken up into three time blocks; the delay block,
ramp block, and steady-state block. The delay block is the time
before and after heating when nitrogen gas is circulated around
the wafer to minimize the amount of air particles that will
oxidize to the wafer during high temperature blocks. The
duration of the starting delay block will affect the purity of
the wafer since short delay times will not allow the inert gasses
sufficient time to displace the air in the chamber. The duration
of the ending delay block needs be long enough to ensure that inert
gasses circulate around the wafer until it has cooled and is no
longer apt to oxidization. The ramp block determines how quickly the
chamber will be heated and cooled and thus affects the amount of
particle diffusion that occurs before annealing. Lastly, the
steady-state block determines how long the wafer is annealed.

Turn on small chiller underneath RTA by flipping
switch upwards. Make sure temperature is set at 17 degrees Celsius
and "DO NOT OPERATE" RTA until that temperature is reached on water
temperature monitor.

Turn on large chiller by flipping switch upwards.

"DO NOT TURN OFF" chillers until 10 minutes after
recipe has completed.

Look to see if bottom wall breaker lever is pushed upwards. If
not, push lever upwards. This lever should always be up unless maintenance is being
done to the machine.

Make sure the "POWER" switch on RTA is turned to the off position.

Remove any wafers from the oven. Close the oven door securely.

Set the Pyro/TC switch to Pyro.

Turn on the computer underneath the RTA. When the screen that says
"Heatpulse P-CAT" appears, press any key to go into the main menu.

Now flip the "POWER" switch on the RTA to the "ON" position. A green LED
should light up and you should hear a sound as the contactor connects. If the
green LED does not light up, call the staff or student contact.